Waymo has responded to questions from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as part of the regulator’s investigation into a January crash in which a robotaxi struck a child at low speed. An initial batch of documents was posted to NHTSA’s website on Friday morning after TechCrunch inquired about them earlier in the week.
three years ago, Lyft was floundering. Perpetual loser Uber was in danger of being completely off the road. The founders were in charge, and in March 2023, they hired former Microsoft and Amazon executive David Risher to turn things around. The new CEO expanded its service in other countries, made deals with Waymo and Nvidia,
Zoox issued a software recall after one of its robotaxis had trouble navigating a smoke-filled emergency fire scene in June. The Amazon-owned company said Friday that it shipped a software update that should fix the problem in its fleet of 105 vehicles. No one was aboard the vehicle during the June incident, and Zoox told
a decade ago, Uber’s then-CEO Travis Kalanick said he viewed autonomous vehicles as an existential threat to the transportation company’s business model. “What if we weren’t part of that future? If we weren’t part of autonomy? Then the future passes us by,” Kalanick told Business Insider. In the years since then, Uber has opted for
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator Jonathan Morrison issued a directive to autonomous vehicle (AV) developers on Wednesday, stating that it is unacceptable for their vehicles to interfere with first responders or authorities. Morrison noted in the letter that the agency has “identified a clear pattern of driverless autonomous vehicles interfering with law enforcement
Robotaxi companies have They thrived in California, where good weather, enthusiasm for technology, and sophisticated workforces have supported their growth for nearly two decades. But a delayed decision by a state regulatory agency is now holding back Alphabet subsidiary Waymo, the U.S. leader in driverless robotaxi services. The delay means Waymo is not yet allowed